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Hi/lo Passages To Build Reading Comprehension Grades 5-6: 25 High-Interest/Low Readability Fiction and Nonfiction Passages to Help Struggling Readers Build Comprehension and Test-Taking Skills

Hi/lo Passages To Build Reading Comprehension Grades 5-6: 25 High-Interest/Low Readability Fiction and Nonfiction Passages to Help Struggling Readers Build Comprehension and Test-Taking Skills Ready-to-reproduce practice pages-written in a variety of genres, including articles, biographies, e-mail announcements, and how-to guides-help struggling readers build comprehension skills. Companion questions for each passage focus on skills such as inferencing, sequencing, predicting, understanding story elements, and more. All of the highly engaging passages are written at slightly below grade level.

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September 30th, 2009 | Posted in Nonfiction | No Comments

Virgil Exner: Visioneer: The official biography of Virgil M. Exner, designer extraordinaire

Virgil Exner: Visioneer: The official biography of Virgil M. Exner, designer extraordinaire

The official biography the man who brought his own personal style to the world of industrial design, from automobiles to powerboats. Some 50 years after his design masterpieces wrested styling leadership away from General Motors’ Harley Earl. Thirty four years after his untimely death, Virgil Exner’s name still remains inexorably linked to the Chrysler Corporation in the minds of car enthusiasts worldwide. His thrilling automobile designs from the mid-fifties took the world by storm and put Chrysler at the top. His work was nothing less than a revolutionWith many previously unseen works of art and family photos among the 150 color images throughout, this is a unique and fascinating insight into a pivotal player in the development of the modern automobile.

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September 30th, 2009 | Posted in Biographies and Memoirs | No Comments

The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why

The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why Customer Review: Best book
I have to say this book is one of the better ones I have read about Nutrition and the foods we should consume. A lot of great information and lots of helpful tips!
Customer Review: The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth
Excellent book! It contains good information about what makes the foods healthy and why they made the top of the list.

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September 29th, 2009 | Posted in Cooking, Food and Wine | No Comments

Easy Mind-Reading Tricks

Easy Mind-Reading Tricks

Dazzle friends, family, and acquaintances with a series of mind-blowing psychic feats that will have them demanding an encore. Robert Mandelberg–comedian, magician, puzzle master, and author of Mind Reading Card Tricks and Mystifying Mind-Reading Tricks, among others–presents the topic as no one else can. With a distinctively wild and wacky humor, he reveals the secrets to 17 blockbuster mind-reading demonstrations, all with presentation tips and techniques, plus ratings to help would-be mind readers determine which ones are right for them. He also shows how to build an entertaining repertoire–and finish the show with an “earth-shattering, mind-blowing trick.”

Customer Review: So So
The first trick is supposed to be the easiest and have a decent wow factor. The author tells you it almost always works and you will never be derailed… Wrong. Even when done properly, there are things out of your control that seem to make it effective only 50% of the time…
Customer Review: Excellent beginners books
No fancy training required a novice can perform most of the tricks in this book with little trouble and a little practice. Some of the tricks are simply mathematical in nature others require a little trickery but the author is very straight forward about how much skill is required to pull off each of the tricks.

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September 29th, 2009 | Posted in Health, Mind and Body | No Comments